Biography
Iain works as a writer, visual artist, mentor, project evaluator and is a carer for his chronically ill daughter. An RWA and former Director of the PLaCE Research Centre, UWE, Bristol, he held a Moore Institute Visiting Fellowship at NUI, Galway in 2014 and is currently a Research Fellow at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee, and at the Environmental Humanities Research Centre, Bath Spa University. An advocate of multi-disciplinary creative practices, particularly deep mapping, he currently helps coordinate PLaCE International and works in various ways with the Welsh collaborative Utopias Bach. He has supported and examined doctorate candidates in the UK, Spain, the Netherlands and Ireland. His recent publications include chapters in The Routledge Companion to Art in the Public Domain (Routledge, 2020) and Walking Bodies: Papers, Provocations, Actions, (Triarchy Press, 2020). He is co-author, with Professor Mary Modeen, of Creative Engagements with Ecologies of Place: Geopoetics, Deep Mapping and Slow Residency (Routledge, 2020).
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